This morning i borrowed a cool collection of Byzantine Epigrams...

[Kyriakos]

From the local library. I did not intend to borrow this book, i did not even know it existed there- or that it existed at all.

However i opened it by chance at some page, and saw there an epigram about a man who was lost at sea for three days but survived and reached the shore. However almost immediately he was attacked by an animal and killed.
The epigram's last sentence was that, therefore, the sea had proven to be much kinder to him than the land.

The book seems to only have epigrams from the Byzantine poets/prose writers of the Macedonian region of the Empire, and particularly of Thessalonike. It has around 300 pages, so i guess i will be busy for a while

-I would like to ask if the two isodynamous groups of people here know something about the Byzantine writers (mostly those of fiction) so i can trace epigrams by those first. So one group should be Dachs. The other everyone else

 

[*****]

I assume Macedonius of Thessalonica is well represented in the book. He was a contemporary of Justinian, and would be a good poet to start with.

 

[Kyriakos]

He probably would have a number of epigrams there, but sadly i cannot say now since i returned the volume to the library because i feared i would not be able to give it the time it needs at the moment...

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Perhaps not a thread for WH forum, but I would be interested in the epigrams. Would you post a few of your favorites for us?